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Welcome & Introduction

Welcome to the HINXMAN Hub!This website is unique: it offers an overview of the entire HINXMAN family, from the Middle Ages to today. It is also the starting point for connecting to a growing number of related websites.

About the WebsitesThis is the central hub of a developing group of HINXMAN Family Historywebsites. They're for everyone with HINXMAN ancestors or relatives, plus anyone else who’s interested. All of the websites are works in progress. Individual pages are frequently updated, and many more pages will be added - but there's lots to see already. Access is free to all.

The websites aim
to gather, preserve and share, interesting and reliable information
about our HINXMAN name, origins and family history. Some information on non-HINXMAN
relatives (such as partners, cousins, ancestors and descendants) is
included, as well as the origins of some related surnames.

The origins of our HINXMAN name and its variants have attracted much speculation and guesswork over the ages. Some of this is incorrect, but has nevertheless been copied and repeated. These websites set out the facts of our family origins and history, based upon authoritative evidence, in an easily accessible way.

The websites do not include full family trees (although some partial trees are provided, where relevant to specific topics). But the websites complement a separate series of detailed HINXMAN family trees, also being developed on the Internet. Individual access to these is available free on request, to authorised HINXMAN relatives and descendants.

These websites will continue to expand, as new pages are added. If you have stories, information, pictures or heirlooms to be included, click on Contact to get in touch.

Illustration: Little Durnford Manor. 1999.A former seat of the Salisbury branch of the HINXMAN family. For picture details,
see footnotes.

Our Family HistoryThere are many fascinating stories and connections, from across the centuries, within our family history. Our ancestors witnessed many great historic events. Some participated in state occasions, as part of the Royal Household. Others survived daring adventures, tragedies, battles on land and sea, great courage and deep despair.

There is much kindness, love and romance in our history too; mixed with humour and humanity. There is a striving for betterment, through varied occupations and business ventures. There are contributions to human knowledge and achievements. There are diseases and hardship, struggles for survival; terrible losses, and impressive successes. There are long journeys, and great voyages. There is law, politics, and the fight for democracy. There is learning too, including science, technology, art, and literature.

There are strange experiences, chance events, and surprising coincidences.There are short lives and long ones; big events and small. Drama runs through all of these true and personal stories. They form part of the remarkable history of the various branches of the HINXMAN family, which is being told in these pages.

Across many historic times and places, we were there: playing our part in shaping the world. Now read on, to discover who we are and how we fared . . .

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Overview:

You're already at the HINXMAN Hub website. Click on the menu in the left sidebar, for an overview of our forebears the Henxmen, and of the whole HINXMAN family.

Click on Facebook: Hinxman History for our Facebook page, to keep you informed on relevant news such as additions to the HINXMAN Family History websites.To receive occasional updates as they happen, click on 'Like' against that page (just below the right hand side of the cover picture).

The Henxmen:

Click on Henxmen Sourcesto explore a growing website, displaying the earliest historical sources about the Henxmen.

HINXMAN Family:

Stories and pictures about specific branches of the HINXMAN family are gradually being added. For links already available, click on:

IllustrationLittle Durnford Manor. Seat
of the Salisbury
branch of the HINXMAN family for 101 years, from its purchase in 1795 by Edward
HINXMAN (1739-1807), to its sale on the death of his grandson
Edward HINXMAN (1810-1896).
In 1966 it became the private home of the Earls of Chichester. The
gardens (but not the house) usually open to the public on 1 day each
summer. This is probably the grandest of all former HINXMAN family homes; many others have been named after it.